Florence's background
The country that Florence grew up in.
What is England?
To prevent infection in hospitals, she heavily advocated for improvements in these two health practices.
What are sanitation and hygiene?
Medical instrument invented in 1819.
What is stethoscope?
Florence was named after this specific European city where she was born.
What is Florence, Italy?
The war in which Florence served as a manager and trainer of nurses.
What is the Crimean War?
School that Florence established in 1860.
What is Nightingale School of Nursing?
Pulse, color, urine, and breathing patterns.
What are vital signs of 1800?
The Lady with the Lamp
The age that Florence began training as nurse.
What is 31?
In 1860, Nightingale revolutionized training by founding the world's first secular nursing school, which was established at this specific London institution.
What is St. Thomas' Hospital?
Many illnesses in this era were mistakenly attributed to genetics or these psychological states of the patient.
What are emotions?
Florence popularized this circular data visual, creating her own "polar area diagram" to show how poor sanitation killed soldiers.
What is the pie chart?
Florence's father personally tutored her in an extensive curriculum that notably included this quantitative discipline which helped her design statistical diagrams and analyze mortality data.
What is mathematics and classical languages?
Nightingale promoted patient recovery by focusing on nutrition, a clean environment, proper care and this natural element.
What is fresh air?
This toxic element was commonly misused in the 1800s as a treatment for syphilis.
What is mercury?
Despising her celebrity status when returning home from the Crimean War, Florence traveled under this alias.
What is Miss Smith?